Improvement in corn-plows



N. PETERS. PNTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTDN D C UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

FELIX e. MOURNING, or BAscow, ILLINOIS.

IM PROVEMENT IN CORN-PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Paten i No. 107,400, dated September 13, 1870.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, FELIX G. MOURNING, of Bascow, Hancock County, Illinois, have made a new and'useful invention of an Improvement in Corn-Plows, which I declare to be made and used substantially as shown and set forth herein and in the accompanying drawing, in which letters of reference to the several parts correspond with those herein used.

Figure l is a plow.

This invention is intended to improve andj complete the style of double corn-plows, in, which a set of thc plows operates on each side; of av row ot' plants to cultivate them, being drawn by two horses and operated by oneg man, finishing the row at one passage.

This invention consists more especially off details.

A and B represent two suoli double cornplows connected together for use.

C C and D D are,the two sets of plows.,y These are either all shovels or all dia-l monds,7 orpart of each, as desired, being madel removable for that purpose.

The plowman walks on one side of the row of plants, and guides both plows by the handles of one or of both, E E E E".

The horses are attached at the ends of the double-tree F, at G G', on each side of the row of plants. l

The double-tree F is attached directly to the ends of the plow-beams H H', by means of clevises and rings, or otherwise, so as to guide and regulate the width of the plows.

perspective view of my coru- The standards of the back plows, C C', are lextended upward to a considerable height, land are connected at the top by a cross part, I. The lower parts of the same standards are l connected by a cross part, K. The oice of these is, with the front connecting part, F, to keep the plows at a definite distance apart,

f to enable the plows to freely move.

On each of the parts I and K, between the said joints and thel standards, the connecting bolts or rods pass through blocks, L MN 0 L M N O', before passing through the standards. These are so arranged as to be taken on and placed outside of the standards, the same rods passing through them. This is for the purpose of shortening or regulating the distance between the sets of plows, by changing one or more of the blocks, as before stated.

I am aware plows somewhat like these have been made.' I dislaim all such.

Vhat I claim is- The double sets of plows, as set forth, for cultivating two sides of a row of plants, when made and arranged substantially as set forth, and having the blocks L M N 0 and L M N O', as set forth, on the two connecting parts I and K, for the purpose described'.

FELIX G. MOURNING.

Witnesses SAMUEL JACOB WALLACE,

ADoLrrI RINKER. 

